The School’s IT infrastructure was approaching end of life and had grown organically over recent years. The School wanted to address challenges with their existing IT infrastructure and instigate a rigorous assessment of Mayfield’s longer-term ICT road-map. The student experience was key and any upgrade needed to avoid classroom lesson disruption and enable best-of breed multimedia to support the learning process.
Additionally, the School needed a stronger DR and failover plan to ensure that critical business applications would always be available, and they wanted to address the growing costs of maintenance for their old IT infrastructure.
After a thorough design and consultation exercise, Mayfield School chose to partner with SysGroup for a managed IT solution. This included:
SysGroup provided assisted installation training with Mayfield staff during the project implementation phase. On-going IT support services were also arranged to help manage and maintain the new VMware infrastructure and storage platform. The new solution led to these results:
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We are delighted with the quality of work delivered by SysGroup. The new virtual environment fully supports Mayfield’s future growth plans and provides a stable, resilient IT infrastructure for all staff and pupils. We wanted to ensure the School achieved best value over a sustained period and the future savings in hardware, maintenance and support costs will realise this aim.
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